Fohat

Blavatsky

Original sense

The dynamic energy of cosmic ideation — the bridge between mind and matter, the ‘messenger’ that stamps the ideas of the Logos into primordial substance. She called it cosmic electricity, not as a metaphor for household current, but as the living force that builds worlds.

Fohat is the steed, and thought is the rider… it is the electric power of affinity and sympathy.

One of the few major cosmological terms she did not simply borrow from Sanskrit. New Age almost never uses the word; it uses ‘source energy,’ ‘chi,’ or ‘the universe sending signs’ to cover overlapping work.

New Age

Later sense

The name vanished. The job description was redistributed to ‘universal energy,’ ‘source,’ ‘prana,’ and the Law of Attraction’s mysterious arranging force.

Typical use. Almost never named. Its nearest popular cousins are ‘the universe has your back’ and undifferentiated ‘energy.’